Protecting patients at a healthcare facility is as much the IT department’s
responsibility as it is the doctors’. Between 2012 and 2015, the number of
EHRs stolen annually skyrocketed from 2.7 million to nearly 110 million. And with more than 17,000 medical records illegally accessed every day, this trend shows no signs of slowing. This isn’t surprising considering the innumerable hardware and software vulnerabilities that exist today, paired with the fact that a single healthcare record is worth 10 times as much as a compromised credit card number.